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dealernews Golf Car Options My Custom Cart We Make Customizing Your Golf Cart Easy My Custom Cart started in October of 2016 basically on a shoestring. John Buffington had to stop truck driving due to his health and since he was hauling for golf cart companies, learned a lot just from his stops at the different stores. From there you can say that he is self-taught in doing carts. We have a store in the heart of Middleburg, FL where we do customizing, sales, service, and parts. Soon we will be expanding into an additional building so our sales and service departments can grow. We have the down-home atti- tude and our customers mean so much and we pride ourselves on our 5-star reviews. The majority of our work is custom builds. One customer had us build an M & M golf cart fashioned after the NASCAR car so it had different colors every- where. It has caught a lot of attention. We have built ones representing the armed forces, ones matching RV’s and cars than ones with certain color schemes. Another thing we do is we love helping out in the community when we can. We are happy to say we have been able to help a few times with our company not being very old. Last year we sponsored 2 golf carts. One was for the Lowe’s Home Improvement of Middleburg where they were raising money for the MDA. They asked us to build a cart so they could raffle it off to a lucky winner and the proceeds went to the local MDA chapter. The other cart was for the local high school, Middleburg High School football team. Our son plays for the team and they have a great program. Middleburg is one of the only schools in the county that does not charge the boys for playing and they are able to do that with fundraising. So we built a cart for Coach Karl Smeltzer where he used it for the season then at the end of the season, we raffled off the cart. The proceeds from the raffle were given to the team for buying uniforms and equipment. This year Coach Smeltzer missed his cart so much he wanted another one but this time to keep. So we sponsored this year’s cart with the help of Visual FX paint and body. Coach had an old cart that was basi- cally a shell that had been stripped and we brought it back to life then went crazy on it to make it something extra special. Visual FX did custom airbrushing on the body that had some of the trademarks of the school, we had Lazy Life Seats + covers do custom seats with 16 WWW.GOLFCAROPTIONS.COM the school logo stitched into the headrest, then we put it all together and added some other touches. We designed and built a special plate on the front that lit up and added flashing lights to the top so everyone could see the cart coming. The cart was presented to Coach just before his only Spring football game with the help of the team. The whole build had been kept a surprise so Coach had no idea what to expect. He was not only surprised but thrilled with the cart. He said no way is anyone taking this cart from him. We feel giving back just does so much and we love helping out the football team when we can. CONTACT My Custom Cart 2581-A Blanding Blvd Middleburg, Florida 32068 904.214.3723 [email protected] www.mycustomgolfcart.com